Explore Quotes by John C. Maxwell

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you'll be able to tackle anything in this world.

Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.

One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.

There is no success without failure and losses.